E85: Cultivating Curiosity with Special Guest Jim Willis   E85 Introduction We seem to be collectively suffering from cultural amnesia. We tend to get boxed in by one perspective on so many important topics: our…

E84: Health as Your Foundation with Special Guest Janell Hartman   E84 Introduction I hope you are all well. I wanted to start off by saying that I loved what Howard Ferguson said at the…

E83: Fireside Chat with Howard Ferguson

 

E83 Introduction-

As a show that is assisting in the awakening of humanity and attempting to do our part using myth, Gnosis or spiritual knowing, and an unflinching stand for what is true I see roughly three groups right now. There is the group that is having one epiphany after another, this is the group that are the meditators, truthers, , the seers and the Gnostics.  This group is excited. For these are the early adopters in this huge shift in consciousness. They are seeing more and more of the pattern.

There is a middle group where things have begun to stir. They are sensing that things may not be what they thought and perhaps the MSM is not telling them the truth about what is happening.

Maybe they took one or two of the red pills and things are shifting.  Or some of what we are talking about mythically is starting to resonate with them. Things are expanding for this group but cognitive dissonance may still be the order of the day as they try to discern the pattern that is emerging. This group is neither early adopters nor the laggards. This group is starting to right-size the ego and so not be as entrenched in their old ways of seeing and categorizing reality. They are starting to sense that we are at a tipping point and that THEY might have something to do with the outcome.

The final group does not appear to be stirring nor awakening and that is fine as well. They are perhaps too entrenched or invested in the old reality. They seem to believe that anyone  that does not think and talk as they do are crazy.

For this group there does not seem to be enough inner resources to either right-size the ego nor prepare themselves for the massive amount of information that will need to be downloaded and integrated into our tribe in the coming weeks and months.

I know a lot of people in each of these three groups: friends and former friends, collegues, family members, people I know in the community. I am fine with whatever group you find yourself in although my sense of the third group is that nobody is going to put themselves in that final group. The ego won’t allow it. Such is the way of things. My focus is on helping those that are showing the unmistakable spark to find some footing and participate in a growing tribe during these strange shifting sands we find ourselves on.

What follows is another red-pill episode.  Part of a series of episodes we have done and will do sprinkled throughout season three. Think of it as two friends sitting around the fire talking about the pattern they are seeing right now.

And make no mistake, these red-pill episodes are for the middle group, the one that is starting to make sense of things. If we can help fill in the picture a bit more clearly or you take something you heard and investigate it for yourself, then Howard and I will have succeeded.

Whether you confirm our findings as true or not is not really the point. Not ultimately anyways.  Your honest inquiry and ability to throw aside the mainstream media’s disinformation campaign and propaganda and discern for yourself is what will further your awakening. I wish you Godspeed listeners. We are, as they say, at the precipice.

Howard Ferguson Bio-

My guest today is a friend, entrepreneur, restaurateur, and fellow seeker of Truth. Howard Ferguson is a man known as straight shooter, a truth teller, and someone who is able to integrate new information and form it into a collective vision of what is happening and where we might be going.

Here is my interview with Howard Ferguson.

E83 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Howard Ferguson.  One resource that both Howard and I love is the writing of Martin Geddes. Martin is really good at giving you a birds-eye view on much of this stuff. I highly recommend you check out his latest book Open Your Mind to Change: The Guidebook to The Great Awakening.

The website is at www.openmindschange.com. I promise you that you will pull a bunch of things out of there that you weren’t aware of. I also promise you that you will feel more optimistic and more empowered about what is unfolding than you did before you picked up the book.

E82: The Myth of the Grail with Tony Rezac

 

E82 Introduction-

Why does the myth of the Grail still enchant us? What is it about it? Its instruction, its hidden meanings, its mystery? As you begin to engage with this myth, something starts to stir in you. If myths carry information and transformative images over time and generations, then this one packs a punch.  You can tell as soon as you start to step into it.

I found this episode to be a daunting task. This myth is mighty and commands my respect. I sense all the powerful beings that are connected to this story. My best option, and the one I took, is to approach it like Parzival, the innocent fool who becomes the hero of the story. Step into the myth in an unsophisticated way and allow it to shape this communication with you.

We must remember that a myth is a living entity and exists within every person. You will get the true, living form of the myth if you can see it as it spins away inside yourself. When working with a myth, it is good to keep in mind that the characters are representatives of all the various levels of consciousness or parts of ourselves as we seek to put ourselves back together. The boundaries between literal and psychological, inner and outer, symbolic and actual, part and whole, microcosm and macrocosm- become very fluid and porous…..

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Tony

E81: The Quest for the Soul with Special Guest

Dr. Anne Baring

 

E81 Introduction-

So many of our wisdom traditions and myths speak of the recovery of the Soul. In the central myth of the Gnostics, The Goddess Sophia has fallen. The Feminine Soul has descended.  Out of the Pleroma or Heavenly Abode all the way to the material dimension that we find ourselves in. Sophia: confused, lost, bewildered, and homesick, the Feminine Soul begins its slow, steady journey back to its Heavenly Abode.

Myths and fairy tales often contain the clues and maps of the Soul’s Journey. It’s descent and eventual ascension. Myths awaken and nourish the Divine imagination. They nourish the Soul.

To use my guests’ words, when we are not in touch with the Soul, it is as if a vital part of us is asleep. It cannot communicate with us, nor we with it. Civilizations such as ours may die because we have forgotten how to nourish the soul and imagination. We have forgotten how to honor and love nature and the Divine Feminine.

All of our most vibrant myths seem to be pointing in this direction. To the marriage of the Divine Masculine Spirit  with the Divine Feminine Soul. We are, as a tribe, being asked to reclaim what has been dormant but not forgotten.

We will not restore the Wasteland we find ourselves in without this awakening. Technology will not rescue us. Not with its dry, digital landscape. It’s algorithms. Technology represents a kingdom without the Goddess, without nature and the Divine Feminine.

In mythic terms, the most beautiful maiden of the forest is in a deep sleep and awaits for the right Prince, for the right moment in the story. It seems we have arrived at this part of the story. We are there.

The destiny of the entire kingdom is dependent on this outcome. Can the Prince, the symbol of Solar Consciousness, turn inward and find the Lunar Soul, his inner Divine Feminine?

Each one of us holds part of this Soul. The myth of the Holy Grail includes all of us. Each one of us IS the Sleeping Beauty AND the Prince that restores her and the kingdom.

It is important to remember that the Soul does not communicate primarily through words. It does through myth and poetry but the Soul seems to prefer feelings, intuitions, emotions, and dreams. It is in this inner direction that holds the key to the Grail and has the potential to awaken the sleeping Princess.

My guest today has written an incredible book. One that ought to sit high up in anyone’s library.

Anne Baring Bio-

Doctor Anne Baring is a Jungian Analyst and the author of 7 booksincluding her most recent book The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soulwhich was awarded the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 2013. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her website www.annebaring.com is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. Here is my interview with Anne Baring.

E81 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed my discussion with Anne Baring as much as I did. I felt like I could talk to her all night and not run out of things to ask her.

If you have not read the fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty or you have kids and you want to introduce them to a powerful tale of the lost feminine principle and the Soul’s Journey, go pick up a copy.

Fairy tales carry an amazing transformative power in them. I was speaking with a friend the other day and I was saying that sometimes I think you could take out all the literature of the world and leave only the fairy tales and the Soul would still be able to figure out where it is and where it is going.

Anne’s book The Dream of the Cosmos is as good as everyone says it is.  It is full of myth, magic, the Soul’s Journey,  and how we go about restoring the Goddess and the feminine principle to its rightful place.

To buy The Dream of the Cosmos or other books by Anne, go to Amazon. And to listen to Anne’s excellent talks and find her video archive, go to www.annebaring.com